Corporations Quotes - Page 3

• That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Liz Cheney Exposes Howard Dean In Lie About His Connection To George Soros and MoveOn.org". "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.newsbusters.org. October 17, 2010.

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• The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

  Alex Cox

  Real, Imagination, Stories

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January, 2003.

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• Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

  Stuart Symington

  Running, War, Shoes

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• And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.

  Paul Hawken

  Feel Better, Thinking, Want

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

  Paul Hawken

  Return, Financial, Process

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• Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

  Daryl Hannah

  Running, World, Influence

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• Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.

  Howard Coble

  Class, House, Bills

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• As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.

  Grover Cleveland

  Struggle, Views, Law

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.254, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Army, Economy, Staff

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• Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Opportunity, Practice

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• Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can and must do so in a way that also protects the constitutional rights of the American people and maintains our free society. We can do that without living in an Orwellian world where the government and private corporations know every telephone call that we make, every website we visit, everyplace we go.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Rights, Government

  "Sanders Welcomes Court Ruling on NSA". www.sanders.senate.gov. May 7, 2015.

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• American corporations hate to give away money.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Hate, Giving

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• What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.

  Julian Assange

  Money, Men, Years

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• Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

  Lester Bangs

  Business, Men, Productive Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Motivation, Business

  "Koch: Moore's propaganda film cheapens debate, polarizes nation". World Tribune, June 29, 2004.

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• We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

  John W. Snow

  Jobs, Reality, Guarantees

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• Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

  Jim Hightower

  Country, Government, Media

  "Populism Is Not A Style" by Jim Hightower, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2009.

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• Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

  George Carlin

  Running, Smart, Thinking

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• The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

  Joe Baca

  Rights, Republican

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• Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

  Henry Rollins

  Smart, People, Choices

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• Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

  Greg Walden

  Power, Unions, Enough

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• We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

  Susan Molinari

  Men, Working Together, Separation

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• One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Molly Ivins

  Heart, Giving, Deregulation

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• Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

  John Lee Hooker

  Pension Plans, Musician, Groups

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• How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

  Naveen Jain

  Awards, Ideas, Giving

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